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First edition, first printing, deluxe issue, of the author's second book, published posthumously the year after her first collection, and scarce in such well-preserved condition. It includes "I'm nobody! Who are you?" and "Wild nights! Wild nights!". This copy is in Myerson's binding A, with Indian pipes in gilt on the front cover; the "ghost plant" was one of Dickinson's favorite flowers. Myerson notes three binding styles: this deluxe style priced at $1.50, the trade binding at $1.25, and a gift binding at $3.50. Octavo. Publisher's deluxe binding of green and white cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, edges gilt, white silk bookmarker. Housed in a green cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Four-page frontispiece facsimile of Dickinson's manuscript for "Renunciation". Light rubbing to spine ends, covers a little marked and foxed, gutter cracked after first gathering, but firm. A near-fine copy. BAL 4656; Myerson A2.1.a ("960 copies printed 21 October 1891").

An extensive collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry, presented in its original unaltered form as edited by Thomas H. Johnson.